Base Salary
$193k - $358k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and deploy autonomous agents for scientific workflows, including tool use, evidence retrieval, multi-step reasoning, memory, and context management.
- Design, build, and optimize distributed training and inference systems for foundation models.
- Own production Python and PyTorch codebases and translate research systems into enterprise-grade software.
- Establish MLOps/AgentOps practices for experiment tracking, observability, monitoring, evaluation, CI/CD, and infrastructure.
- Define the engineering roadmap for agentic and foundation models and provide technical leadership across Genentech.
- Partner with ML scientists and domain experts to turn scientific problems into efficient, shippable systems.
Requirements
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
- At least 5 years of industry experience with a PhD, 8 years with an MS, or 10 years with a BS building, shipping, and owning large-scale ML systems and infrastructure end-to-end.
- Exceptional Python skills and strong software engineering fundamentals, including Git, automated testing, documentation, and architecture design.
- Extensive hands-on experience with PyTorch, JAX, distributed systems, and ML infrastructure deployed on AWS or HPC environments.
- Experience designing agent orchestration frameworks, including LangGraph or MCP-based tool integration, persistent agent memory, and self-improving loops.
- Strong interest in applying frontier AI and agentic science to drug discovery, biology, and chemistry.
- Preferred: expertise in LLM serving, test-time compute, sampling and search strategies, model routing, batching, caching, and latency/cost/quality tradeoffs.
- Preferred: experience with molecular modalities such as protein sequences, chemical graphs, and structured molecular data.
- Preferred: public contributions to open-source ML, systems, or MLOps libraries.
Benefits
- Onsite presence at the Roche/Genentech campus is expected.
- Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.
- The position qualifies for the company benefits detailed in the provided benefits link.
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About Roche
Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management. Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. Thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines. Roche has been recognised as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry ten years in a row by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI). For more information, please visit https://careers.roche.com Read our community guidelines here: https://www.roche.com/some-guidelines.htm #Roche #Biotechnology #Pharmaceuticals #Diagnostics #Healthcare #PersonalisedHealthcare #GreatPlaceToWork #Innovation